Quotes About Perseverance

If you work hard and you believe in your craft and yourself, I don't think nobody can stop you.

I don't know how these bands did it back in the '70s when they would crank out two records a year and tour at the same time, which is incredible to me. I have so much respect for all those bands working so hard like that.

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

When you're losing, crap happens.

Crap happens, you know? It happens, especially when you're in this sport long enough.

You do something, the same thing over and over again for a long time, you're gonna feel like crap.

When you're driven to your absolute limit, working 14 hours for 14 days straight, you have to know what you want, and not listen to all this other crap outside.

I don't make crappy movies. I spend two or three years making a film. I don't take myself seriously, but I take my movies very seriously.

In the car business, sometimes you crash.

I remember, my first season was 1999, and I must have crashed about 13 times in that first year. But then, in the second season, you crash about half as much and then, in the third year, even less again.

You throw 40 times a game when you're first starting out, it's a crash course.

I remember people telling me that at 5 1/2 minutes long, 'Lightning Crashes' would never be a hit song.

I'm in boxing to be a champion and if I lose it brings me all the way back to the bottom, and I don't want to keep crawling back up. I'm too old to be doing that, man.

'White Material' is about courage and craziness.

A lot of people thought this dream must be madness, but we are not crazy.

God of War' was a 40-60 person team. It was a lot of very different, very passionate, very crazy people.

I'm 32 this year so I'm experienced, I know how it is: sometimes you do very easy things and sometimes you can do crazy things that you don't understand. It's just to be focused on the hard work. For me, that's always the No 1 thing.

Eventually, one day, you know, cream rises to the top. So, you know, I'm waiting... I'm waiting for the rise.

I've created the life I wanted.

I like creation even if the process is always a bit difficult.

I like creation even if it is a bit difficult. It is always very exciting.

Why do I put myself in a position to be cast aside or not considered as I would like to? Because I am a creative mind, because I still aspire to be one.

As a creative person, you want to be creative, you know? You don't want to constantly wait around - a lot of movies fall apart, or there's just not as much out there as there used to be.

I don't know if I have a career or not, or where it ends or it begins. I have been working, doing what I do for a long time. But my creative process has always been so tortuous.